Why Liberalism Is On The Wrong Side Of History

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C.S. Lewis

”One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian ‘isms’ of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.” — Jonah Goldberg

Liberals dream of one day seeing all Americans permanently locked in the smothering, cradle-to-grave death grip of the nanny state. Nothing excites a liberal more than the idea of controlling where you go to school, regulating your work and play, deciding what type of health care you’re going to have and then deciding when you get to retire and how much money you have when you do. Even if you want to choose, you can’t. Even if you want to break free, you’re stuck. You’re not allowed to make different choices because liberals have made it illegal.

What if you’re pro-choice on spending your tax dollars on a private school instead of a public school? What if you’d prefer to keep your current health care plan instead of a much more expensive new plan that provides coverage you don’t need? What if you’d rather invest your own Social Security money instead of giving it to the government? Sorry, but you don’t get a choice. You get the same antiquated 1920s style mentality that prompted Henry Ford to say, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”

It’s a kinder, gentler version of George Orwell’s horrific “boot stamping on a human face – forever.” In the liberal version, it’s a boot gently pressing you to the ground, forever, “for your own good” — as if liberals have the slightest idea of what “your own good” might be. Certainly, they believe they know what’s best for you. It’s what they were told by their college professors, the New York Times and their friends. There’s a whole echo chamber dedicated to telling them exactly what they want to hear about how other people should be living.

The problem with that is not so much liberals living how they want to live; it’s that liberals want to force everyone else to live how they want to live. They don’t like guns; so no one should have guns. They like gay marriage; so everyone must be forced to like gay marriage. They like PBS; so everyone should be forced to pay for PBS.

Once, when the planet was mostly made up of illiterate people who engaged in subsistence farming and were ruled by noblemen, that sort of thinking made a certain kind of sense. Today, liberalism’s hunger to control people is an anachronism that’s out of place in the modern world. If California wants to go billions into debt, welcome illegal aliens and have more people on welfare than working, that’s its mistake, but the real problem with liberalism is that liberals insist on trying to force it to become EVERYONE’S MISTAKE. It’s not enough for California, New York and Illinois to destroy themselves; liberals insist on trying to use the federal government to force citizens in Texas, North Carolina and Utah to embrace the same destructive policies. It’s a one-size-fits-all philosophy in a world that’s giving consumers more choices every day.

If Justin Bieber is at the top of the pop charts, should EVERYONE be forced to listen to Justin Bieber? If Duck Dynasty is popular, should EVERYONE be forced to watch Duck Dynasty? If the two most popular foods in America turn out to be hotdogs and chocolate ice cream, should EVERYONE have to eat those two foods at every meal? We laugh at this sort of thinking in the marketplace, but that’s exactly the philosophy liberals have with government.

Liberals like expensive health care plans that pay for birth control and maternity care; so EVERYONE has to have those plans or be taxed. Liberals love abortion; so they believe EVERY STATE must make abortion legal, even the ones that are pro-life. Liberals want to control how your children are educated; so they refuse to allow parents to choose whether they want to spend their tax dollars on public or private schools. Most people have hundreds of options on TV, on the Internet and in the grocery store; yet liberals want to use the federal government to take all of your choices away when it comes to guns, education, your retirement and your health care.

It’s why Congress has an approval rating of 6%. It’s why Obamacare is wildly unpopular. It’s why D.C. and our court system have devolved into partisan warfare. It’s because liberalism is a non-functional, imperious philosophy that is out of step with the modern world and on the wrong side of history.

This is nothing but a pathetic tantrum, wielding an uneducated and ridiculously over-the-top perception of socialist values within society. Leave it to the far right to claim that every aspect of their life is under threat, but at least this guy has credit for calling them libs and not ‘commies’. I guess the word has changed, but the same old paranoia and tantrums still echo over their trailer parks.

It’s true, John. Liberals strive to improve the lives of the majority, and oftentimes these improvements arise because the government is, collectively, better informed than the average citizen on most issues.

This is one of the reasons we have government – to serve our collective needs, from universal education K-12, to a solid infrastructure of roads and technology to support our work and leisure, to rules and regulations so that our quality of life isn’t destroyed by businesses eager to make a buck at any cost. We are a big, complex country. Our government is there to protect us from foreign aggressors as well as the aspects of a capitalist economy that we as individuals as powerless to control.

Taxes are the price we pay for living in a civilized society. What are the results of historically low US tax rates as supported by conservative ideology?

A weakened US in every respect. A crumbling education system, an infrastructure in tatters, the worst and most expensive internet services, a historic wealth disparity to such an extent that 6 people in one family have more wealth than the bottom 40% of citizens.

If a corporate is a person and can have a particular religious faith, then most certainly the government of the people, by the people, and for the people can show love for those people.

This is another bold deception (or bold lie) by the apostles of toxic socialism…the American poverty rate is fairly constant after trillions and decades of democrat projections/promises.

Wake up, the purpose of toxic socialism is NOT to lift people out of poverty…it is to keep them there with promises, demons, and smears that bankrupt a nation (or a city like Detroit) BUT empower socialist elites and a select group or two as they loot at will.

There are NO exceptions to this moronic system of monster gov-meant/huge debt/growing jobless and borrowing.

ITS ALWAYS IN THE FUTURE…THE SOCIALIST UTOPIA IS ALWAYS IN THE FUTURE…ask Fidel…go aheadâ€¦
he is STILL telling Cubans after 50 years that demons are causing their misery…NOT HIS TOXIC SOCIALIST POLICIES…

There is another name for what they want for the country. It is called communism.
The state chooses where you go, what school you and your children get to go to. Almost to the point of when you are allowed to die.
If you object then you are locked up.
Freedom of thought and action are controlled by the state, for you own good.
That is what obuma and his lib-communist want for this country. No rights just the state and what it wants………………….

The liberal agenda is an insult to people with a brain in their head. I am constantly outraged that a these idiots suck up every drop of drool dribbling from the lips of the POTUS. and, in their tiny little minds, extrapolate that the Government knows best. What a bunch of damn fools, thinking that they are helping others, when Obozocare takes away doctors, choice, good sense in this fraudulent disguise his ideas on wealth distribution. He is a stinking communist agitator and a Muslim. He must be tried for treason, and booted out of america, his citizenship stripped, and sent home to daddy in Kenya. #ImpeachObama #DestroyValerieJarrett #MolonLabe #DontTreadOnMe